Quotes by Mike Carey

“Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.”

“Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.”

“Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.”

“But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them”

“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.”

“Because all the waters of the ocean won't fill a bucket with a hole in it. And that's their fall, and that's their fellowship. Desire. The hole in the bucket: the gulf of yearning into which the so...”

“It was a hot, moist armpit of a night...”

“So what Im getting at is this. Okay, maybe its cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But...”

“You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder.”

“We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.”

“If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.”

“No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.”

“I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.”

“All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.”

“You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mo...”

“You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.”

“The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, ...”

“Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached”

“And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.”

“Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.”